New paper from @aial.ie! @harshp.com, Dick Blankvoort, Adel Shaaban, @sashamtl.bsky.social & me We analysed 6 GenAI ToS--finding missing info, major power imbalances & user obligations that are impossible to meet without violating the terms arxiv.org/abs/2603.18964 & aial.ie/research/ter... 1/

Jesus the rain everywhere is flooded

Fintan O'Toole: Peter Vandermeersch ignored his own golden rule about using AI

For years, tech companies struggled to take smart glasses mainstream. Cut to 2026, and Meta has sold millions of pairs of their Ray-Ban and Oakley glasses, driving a boom of content in which pickup artists and pranksters record strangers in public—often without their knowledge or consent.

My GP practice texting me to say blood test results are ok coming up as a “likely scam” is reassuring!

Wish Anne all the best in her role as CEO of the #HSE www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF67...

Ah the Dubs have been relegated to division 2 #gaa

Letter to the Editor in the @irishtimes.com this morn. I’m presently finishing my book chapter on how photos of 19th c Irish evictions transformed public opinion and reversed fortunes of the Irish National League. Then as now, images have unrivalled powers to persuade and bear witness to cruelty.

This is what ff/fg has enabled: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

under his eye

Entries open for the Unheard Voices: the Joe Drennan Memorial Prize "for a piece of journalism offering a voice to those who so often go unheard." Any student in college/university on the island of Ireland can enter. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Wow great opportunity with a fantastic team in UL #academicsky universityvacancies.com/university-l...

I look forward to him meeting our wonderful President

Heartbroken to hear the passing of Dolores Keane. I’ve been listening to her since I was a child, it’s hard to put into words how much her music has meant to me. Feels like the loss of something profoundly Irish, but the gift she left through her music will remain. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam

Such a cool course

Laoch www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Up Kerry! 😆 “"In Hamnet, it felt like she wasn't acting. It was like she was walking around the woods around Killarney, gathering bits and bobs to make her own potion. What you see is what you get. She's just fantastic." www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

😍 #JobFairy @roinnslainte.bsky.social Chief Health Ethics Officer Apply by 01/04/2026 @ 15:00 www.linkedin.com/redir/redire... #HealthEthics #Ethics #PublicHealth #CriticalPublicHealth

I once had student feedback in OZ that a student was unhappy with my Accent cause they could not watch my lecture at 1.5speed 🙄

The Brendan O Connor panel on #rte is so predictable each week.

Never change Mayo, never change

I like this piece from @timharford.ft.com but it largely makes the case for ‘blue skies’ type research as it may become useful later. There is a different argument I think we don’t make enough: it is part of the human endeavour to understand the nature of our world www.ft.com/content/0d60...

‘Reminiscence therapy’: How recordings of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh are helping dementia patients

Come on Englanddddd 😬 #Sixnations

Jeepers what a game #sixnations #ENGFRA

The hype of #Mayo 😆

Irish rugby fans, when they realise our title hopes are now dependent on England beating France #SixNations

“Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say” Andy Stanley

“In a statement after Kila’s conviction, the HSE said it should have immediately suspended Kila from duty but it did not.” www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

Health unions say HSE has ‘ploughed ahead’ with AI strategy without adequate consultation

Thank you to @codohertynews.bsky.social for covering our @researchireland.ie funded research in this mornings @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

#mancity having a #spurs like nightmare

This is our world today👇 Solidarity Cllr John Maher The AI generated lies are despicable - this is what public reps trying to do good are up against. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

The #esb better sort this out asap 😱

“In a development that will hearten college arts faculties, first preference applications to degree courses in the field of arts have risen by 7% this year following a slight decline in applications last year”

“One striking observation is that there is very little variation in actual energy use between dwellings of different BER ratings, so that the average actual energy consumption is similar for A-Rated house and a G-Rated house” 💀